{"id":5817,"date":"2005-11-11T15:10:18","date_gmt":"2005-11-11T20:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5817"},"modified":"2005-11-11T15:10:18","modified_gmt":"2005-11-11T20:10:18","slug":"when-the-wheels-come-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/when-the-wheels-come-off\/","title":{"rendered":"When the wheels come off"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last week in October was described<\/a> far and wide as “the worst week of George W. Bush’s presidency.” There was plenty to warrant the description — Scooter Libby was indicted, Harriet Miers’ nomination came to a humiliating end, the war in Iraq produced its 2,000th U.S. casualty, the polls showed Bush’s support in freefall, and consumer confidence fell. It was, by any reasonable measure, an awful week for the president.<\/p>\n

Two weeks later, Bush purports to be on the comeback trail, in large part because, unless he’s impeached, he has nowhere to go but up. So, how’s this week gone for the beleaguered president? Let’s see…<\/p>\n

* The Republican House rejected<\/a> Bush-backed spending cuts.<\/p>\n

* The Republican majority of the Senate Finance Committee rejected<\/a> Bush’s capital gains tax cuts.<\/p>\n

* The Republican House rejected<\/a> Bush’s demands to drill the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.<\/p>\n

* A growing, bi-partisan consensus emerged to ignore Bush<\/a> and curtail the Patriot Act.<\/p>\n

* The Republican Senate rebuffed<\/a> the White House on torture and the Republican House is poised to do the same<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee said Bush’s call to make his first-term tax cuts permanent has practically zero support<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Bush’s drive to privatize Social Security was declared dead<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Bush’s trip to the Summit of the Americas really didn’t go well<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* And voters in a reliably “red” state rebuffed the president and elected a Democratic governor<\/a>, fairly easily.<\/p>\n

If this is Bush on the comeback trail, I can’t wait to see what the political landscape will look like when he hits another rough patch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The last week in October was described far and wide as “the worst week of George W. Bush’s presidency.” There was plenty to warrant the description — Scooter Libby was indicted, Harriet Miers’ nomination came to a humiliating end, the war in Iraq produced its 2,000th U.S. casualty, the polls showed Bush’s support in freefall, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}